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Safari Tabs

When I drag a Safari tab to create a new window it remains in the previous window but fades out like it's not active. So in the event, I close the tab out on the original window it closes it on the new window as well. I hope that makes sense. I keep multiple tabs open on Safari and never had this issue until recently.

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Posted on Oct 3, 2022 8:07 AM

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Posted on Oct 3, 2022 11:18 AM

I believe that this was broken in the 12.6 release. I am seeing the same problem in Safari version 16.0 (17614.1.29.9.10). It has been driving me crazy since I routinely move tabs to new windows or between windows. The following screen captures shows the outcome of dragging this tab from the parent to a new window. Both the new window and its shadow in the parent window will update when you toggle between them.



You will see a similar behavior when you drag tabs between windows. The difference in that case is that the tab title is empty in the new window. I am assuming that this is a defect that came out of the tab grouping changes recently introduced.


Tabs do not leave first window entirely a… - Apple Community seems to be the same issue.


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Safari Tabs

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